Pablo Garcia-Diaz

Reminds me of a passage from Jost (2009:18, 2088-2091): the null hypothesis of zero differentiation is virtually always false, and if sample size is large enough, this can be demonstrated with any desired statistical significance.
Good to find @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social here!

The 'Invasive Species' Collection at #EnvironmentalConservation

Follow the link to leading research and perspectives on the management and ecological and socio-economic impacts of invasive species.

#conservation #environment #biodiversity #species #ecosystems 🌎 🌐

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Book cover for https://oliviergimenez.github.io/banana-book/

📘 New book out soon !

I’m excited to share that 𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞-𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐯 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐈𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐄 is being published by Chapman & Hall / CRC Press

Hope it’s useful to students, researchers, and practitioners

#StatisticalEcology #NIMBLE

Conceptualizing and measuring ecological spillover effects from protected areas Protected areas influence their surroundings in a variety of ways. These “spillover effects” can change an area’s conservation value and affect its social license. Advanced statistical tools for quan...

Conceptualizing and measuring ecological spillover effects from protected areas 🌎🌐🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Robust inference and errors in studies of wildlife control - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Robust inference and errors in studies of wildlife control

Robust inference and errors in studies of wildlife control 🌎🌐🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hey @mothyblackburn.bsky.social, did you know that some moths feed on mangoes?

My new neighbour - a tiny opposum (Didelphis albiventris)

My new neighbour - a tiny opposum (Didelphis albiventris)

Governance and Conservation Effectiveness in Protected Areas and Indigenous and Locally Managed Areas Increased conservation action to protect more habitat and species is fueling a vigorous debate about the relative effectiveness of different sorts of protected areas. Here we review the literature tha...

Governance and Conservation Effectiveness in Protected Areas and Indigenous and Locally Managed Areas 🌎🌐🧪 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Mapping Your Data with ggplot2 in R with Basemaps and Insets | Oliver C. Stringham Personal website of Oliver C. Stringham

Mapping Your Data with ggplot2 in R with Basemaps and Insets
oliverstringham.com/blog/data-vi...

Planting trees is not rewilding

Reintroducing species is not rewilding

Individual actions are not in themselves rewilding

To contribute to rewilding, they should be part of a bigger plan to let natural processes come to dominate in an area

Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research - Nature Communications Different scientific traditions offer seemingly disparate approaches to inferring causal relationships in ecological systems. This Perspective unifies the causal assumptions and methods from...

Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A screenshot of the 1st page of article entitled "A Framework for Questionable Research Practices in Ecological Modelling" and available at https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/11855/. The text reads "Questionable research practices (QRPs) bias the published literature towards apparently strong and conclusiveresults, resulting in low rates of replicability. Recent metaresearch reveals that ecology is not immune tothe ‘reproducibility crisis’ seen in other disciplines, due to similar rates of QRPs and a lack of transparencyin published research. However, metaresearch to date focuses on hypothesis-testing research and treatsdata-dependent analytic decisions as inherently questionable. This is not a good fit for ecology and relatedfields that conduct exploratory or predictive research using complex models, where data-dependent decisionsare often necessary and legitimate aspects of the modelling process."

Interesting pre-print "A Framework for Questionable Research Practices in Ecological Modelling". I tend to agree with the statement in the screenshot re data-driven modelling decisions. 🌎🌐🧪 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

This great thread is about re/introductions, but habitat/species management approaches also applies to the issue that @jmbecologist.bsky.social raises, of populist 'gurus' subverting proper science and evidence in the conservation space. Debates need to be honest with the public and evidence-based 👇

Measuring the Quality of Species List Contents Abstract. Taxonomic lists, usually of species, have many functions. However, there is currently no reliable and convenient way to determine whether a list

📊 Thomas Pape et al. introduce a set of indicators to assess species list quality, a tool to improve biodiversity data and its use in research and conservation 🌍🧬 

👉 doi.org/10.1093/bios...

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Quite happy to be part of this @gbif.org-funded project to mobilise thousands of biodiversity records from Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. Stay tuned for updates! (photo by Beto Caceres, ProYungas) www.gbif.org/project/BID-...

Global forest dataset incongruence creates high uncertainties for conservation, climate, and development policy A comparison of 10 global forest datasets showed that technical differences created substantial uncertainty in estimates in forest carbon, forest-poverty relationships, and forest biodiversity habitat...

How much forest is there?
🌳🌲🌎🌍🌏🌐
Scientists agree on only 26% of global mapped forest area @cp-oneearth.bsky.social www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

Remote‐Control Science in Ecology: A Hidden Face of Scientific Neocolonialism We introduce the concept of “remote-control science” as a modern form of scientific neocolonialism in ecology, where researchers, preferably from the Global North, control projects in the Global Sout...

Essential reading for conservation scientists & ecologists (in fact anyone doing science across borders!) 🌍🧪https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70227?af=R

Remote-control science is an internet-enabled form of "parachute" science

FWIW, I see a lot of this in AI and macroecology research

Decision analysis rooted in Indigenous and Western scientific knowledge identifies cost‐effective strategies for managing hyperabundant deer to restore keystone places Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

What a fantastic paper! Decision analysis rooted in Indigenous and Western scientific knowledge identifies cost-effective strategies for managing hyperabundant deer to restore keystone places 🌎🌐🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Fascinantes estos trabajos y poder saber un poco mas de lo que había en la Península Ibérica hace tiempo. Me ha hecho recordar a la garra de oso de hace 400 años que esta en la iglesia de Navacepeda de Tormes

Key criteria for developing ecosystem service indicators to inform decision making Decision makers are increasingly interested in information from ecosystem services (ES) assessments. Scientists have for long recognised the importanc…

Key criteria for developing ecosystem service indicators to inform decision making 🌎🌐🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A digital twin for real-time biodiversity forecasting with citizen science data - Nature Ecology & Evolution Citizen science data are increasingly used in biodiversity monitoring. This study applies a digital twin approach to biodiversity monitoring using a large citizen science dataset on birds from Finland...

A digital twin for real-time biodiversity forecasting with citizen science data 🌎🌐🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Stakeholder mapping to support invasive non-native species management in South America Effective long-term management of invasive non-native species (INNS) in South America is a pressing yet complex task. Critically, the environmental, h…

Stakeholder mapping to support invasive non-native species management in South America @neobiota.pensoft.net www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/...htt

Identifying Priorities, Targets, and Actions for the Long-term Social and Ecological Management of Invasive Non-Native Species - Environmental Management Formulating effective management plans for addressing the impacts of invasive non-native species (INNS) requires the definition of clear priorities and tangible targets, and the recognition of the plu...

If interested, check our own related papers: Identifying Priorities, Targets, and Actions for the Long-term Social and Ecological Management of Invasive Non-Native Species link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Realizing and assessing social successes in invasive species management Each year untold numbers of land managers and volunteers work individually and collectively to manage invasive plant, animal, and insect species. Whether such efforts are deemed successful depends on...

Realizing and assessing social successes in invasive species management 🌎🌐🧪 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A Psychological and Linguistic Analysis of “The 2024 State of the Climate Report: Perilous Times on Planet Earth” Abstract. A traditional goal of science and environmental communication, including climate communication, has been to encourage disinterested or uninformed

Scientific Warnings Don't Work:
Climate Messaging Needs a Rethink @aibsbiology.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Interesting - can you elaborate on what those implications are?

The making of novel ecosystems: A process‐based framework for measurement, analysis and application Ecological novelty is emerging rapidly due to global change drivers such as climate shifts, species introductions, defaunation, and land-use transformation. These changes challenge how we assess, ...

The making of novel ecosystems: A process-based framework for measurement, analysis and application 🌎🌐🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

Picaflor enano / Slender-tailed woodstar (Microstilbon burmeisteri)

Picaflor enano / Slender-tailed woodstar (Microstilbon burmeisteri)

Picaflor enano / Slender-tailed woodstar (Microstilbon burmeisteri)

Picaflor enano / Slender-tailed woodstar (Microstilbon burmeisteri)

Picaflor enano / Slender-tailed woodstar (Microstilbon burmeisteri) in the mountains of NW Argentina #birds #birdingArgentina #Argentina #birdsArgentina

Alien range size, habitat breadth, origin location, and domestication of alien species matter to their impact risks We collected information on 1071 established alien terrestrial vertebrate species (mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians) and created a comprehensive database of 108 alien species to assess their ...

Alien range size, habitat breadth, origin location, and domestication of alien species matter to their impact risks 🌎🌐🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...